Loch Lomond 12 Year

Tastes like campfire. Love it!

Friday again. Time for a sample. A Highland graciously provide to our tasting group by @GenerouslyPaul. Much needed and wanted after a bad head cold and one of those crazy work weeks. Nosing reveals unripened honeydew, apple jolly rancher and vanilla extract. Apples, apricots, soap, rubbing alcohol prove to add a bit of an oddity/out of sorts. Some malt and oak. There’s an odd funk of mineral/earthiness and fruity sweetness that adds to this swirl of aromas. Cognac-like on arrival. Wine-y white grape, apricots, toffee, vanilla with a mineral-earthiness. All this contained in a medium body. Vanilla sugar sweetness ultimately comes in the mid-palate as it opens. Fresh ginger as is fades towards the finish which it give liveliness to the palate. As time progresses, the unbalanced profile begins to fall into balance. A short finish of oak, ginger spice with a dash of sweet vanilla. The nose was a oddity, confusing the senses. The palate was somewhat drab but is pulled together/centered around the sweetness but unfortunately that sweetness does not last long; diffusing what was centered around sweetness to a ginger spiciness. All that said, there are hints of sophistication where this is a slow sipper. One to take some time with to slow the day down. At least for 1/24th of it. [85/100][Tasted: 5/4/18]